Those who seek and exude curiosity shall never fear, Nick’s life was bright energy.
His dream to be a professional photographer, he captured...

Soltice

Sometimes a grief steps out of the woods
arriving just as evening begins

I have no words to ward it off
nothing ...

He Does Not Deserve Black
Con simpatico

I wear scarlet to his funeral,
a beautiful floor-length affair
with dancing sleev...

After the crash,

we passed you silently
from hand to hand.
We remembered you in the sop
of the bread,
in the cool g...

Communion
Andante gracioso

My hands, heavy as prayers
divide the yolks from the whites,
the stirring spoon, a silver sigh...

I want to tell you how I walked tonight
on the luminous street beneath your window.

I want to tell you how the whiskering leaves

Adagio

like lightning
opens the sky sometimes.

It has found its secret place
under my tongue.

It has rendered the...

It took me a long time to climb/the stairs/ of the attic/ each step /over and over/stretched/ into a black landscape/a long staircase/ In my dream...

Some caskets were picked up by relatives in areas of airports normally reserved for livestock, those bodies difficult to identify, in sealed caske...

Furioso

An exhibit of photographer Taryn Simon’s recreated floral centerpieces was displayed to underscore how the stagecraft of political ...

in your room, where I want to rest,
I lean against the sill

find my hands
and am able again to see you

clear eyed and sm...

A gift from the people of Scotland, the cairn in Arlington Cemetery is made of 270 blocks of red sandstone quarried from Lockerbie in memory of th...

This is not the spot where the plane
plumaged from the sky to a hole in the ground.
Nor did I ever hear bagpipes in the Scottish villa...

Sostenuto

You sit stunned thinking of the past
The past that was only moments ago
Before they said the plane crashed
Befo...

Adagio

and still the mist condenses to drip down
the window as if by some collective will. The day fringed with down, not yet
e...